A history of African motherhood : the case of Uganda, 700-1900 / Rhiannon Stephens, Columbia University.
This history of African motherhood over the longue durée demonstrates that it was, ideologically and practically, central to social, economic, cultural, and political life. The book explores how people in the North Nyanzan societies of Uganda used an ideology of motherhood to shape their communities...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | African studies series.
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Table of Contents:
- Writing precolonial African history: words and other historical fragments
- Motherhood in north Nyanza, eighth through the twelfth century
- Consolidation and adaptation: the politics of motherhood in early Buganda and south Kyoga, thirteenth through the fifteenth century
- Mothering the kingdoms: Buganda, Busoga and east Kyoga, sixteenth through the eighteenth century
- Contesting the authority of mothers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.